Year of the Tiger
A courtyard strung with paper lanterns, and one small decision waiting at the end of every spin. Three cards lie face down; you pick one, and the spin either carries on or ends right there. It is the quietest kind of choice, which is exactly why it is the one people remember. Free to play, straight in the tab.
At the table
The handful of controls, and what each one does
The game at a glance
The turn
Three cards, one choice
Every spin ends with three face-down cards. You turn one, and the spin either carries on or settles there — a small decision, left to chance rather than skill.
Theme
Lantern courtyard
A spin
Deal, then choose
Cost
Free to play
Runs on
Any browser
Built with
Construct, played in the browser
Packaged as one export that runs in the tab, with no plugin and nothing to download.
How a spin goes
Set the amount
Choose how many points each spin uses. It is your pace lever, nothing more.
Deal a spin
One press lays the board out under the lanterns and the spin begins.
Turn a card
Three lie face down at the end. Pick one; the spin carries on or settles there.
Stop whenever
Close the tab and the courtyard goes dark. Nothing is owed and nothing carries over.
Faces in the courtyard
Paper lantern
Lights the row it lands in and asks nothing else of you.
Tiger mask
The one that opens the three face-down cards at the end of a spin.
Brass gong
Turns up now and then and marks the spin worth pausing on.
Folding fan
Common and calm, the face you will see across most sessions.
Year of the Tiger is the one people bring up first, and not because it is the loudest — it is the opposite. Where Temple of Rovimoro plays to a crowd, this leans in close: the lanterns, the low table, and three cards face down at the end of a spin asking you to pick just one.
The decision is tiny and left to chance, and yet it is the thing that sticks long after the courtyard has gone dark.
Before you sit down
No. Year of the Tiger costs nothing to sit down to. The site has no checkout and nothing on sale, so a charge is not something that can happen here.
No. You can play a spin without signing up at all. An account is there only to remember your name between visits, and it lives on your own device.
No. The three cards are down to chance, and no amount of practice changes which one carries the spin on. That is the point of it — the fun is in the moment before it turns, not in getting good at guessing.
Back to the line-up
Year of the Tiger is the close, quiet one. If you would rather something loud or something to leave running in the background, the other two are a click away in the line-up.
All three games